Thursday, February 21, 2013

Mid-Week Post

Quickly now...

When my parents came to this country, they had to work even to have someone return their phone calls (because foreigners really like it when you're rude to them). Imagine an immigrant not taking a dime from anyone; imagine a Toronto where they all will:

On Thursday morning, City Council will vote on Motion CD 18.5
— the so-called 'access without fear' motion — which could put Toronto
on the path of giving undocumented migrants the ability to utilize city
services such as food banks and homeless shelters.

The rationale, of course, is that some undocumented immigrants are
causing themselves and their families harm because they don't access
services out of fear of detention or deportation?

Thank you for stabbing legitimate, hard-working immigrants in the back, bleeding-hearts.

A Saskatoon man already fighting Christmas greetings on city buses
says the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission has agreed to hear his
complaint against a city councillor who said grace at a volunteer
appreciation banquet.

“This isn’t supposed to be a Christian city or a Christian country.
This is a secular nation filled with all kinds of religious and
spiritual people, atheists and agnostics,” said local activist Ashu
Solo. “We need to respect everybody. We need to protect the rights of
the minority from the misdirected will of the majority in a
constitutional democracy like Canada.”

Only a militant atheist would take upon himself the mission to rid the world of things that personally bother him and no one else. I wish to register a complaint against this man and I hope that others will follow suit with this. Aren't there more serious violations of liberty than saying Grace or Merry Christmas? If you are a paranoid leftist with nothing better to do than see conspiracies where none exist (and therefore are too stupid to live) instead of acknowledging that real persecutions are going on in the world and need concrete action not political equivalents of cause-de-jour ribbons, then yes, someone is out to get you and they are using mealtime prayers and Christmas to do it.

In his first official visit to the country, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio
told Israel’s president on Wednesday that Jerusalem is “of course the
capital of your country.” He reiterated America’s bipartisan support for
Israel.

Obama's claimed phone call to Hillary and Hillary's statement would
occur approximately six hours after the attacks had started.

The White House made this assertion only after outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told Congress that Obama did not contact him
the night of the attacks after a "pre-scheduled" 5 PM meeting. Panetta
said neither he nor General Martin Dempsey heard from Obama after this
meeting and that no one from the White House called at any point during
the attacks.

White House spokesman Jay Carney insisted that the President remained
in contact with his national security team: "Like every president
before him, [Obama] has a national security and deputy national security
adviser. He was in regular contact with his national security team
directly, and spoke with the Secretary of State at approximately 10
p.m."

Carney's claims also run counter to Counsel to the President Kathryn H. Ruemmler's intimation that no phone calls were made by Obama while the Benghazi consulate was under attack. At 10 PM Washington DC time, the consulate was still under attack.

Who's lying, Barry? Panetta? All those who testified that the State Department did nothing while four people were killed in Benghazi?

In a speech to
the Cato Institute in July 2007, then-Sen. Chuck Hagel claimed that
relations with North Korea were "moving in a positive" direction because
of multilateral talks with the regime of Kim Jong-Il, rather than the
path of confrontation the Bush administration had chosen with Iraq,
Iran, Syria, and Hamas in Gaza.

There is no such thing as a perfect plan, and the idea of pressuring
North Korea through international financial sanctions is no exception.
Like money launderers everywhere, the North Koreans have adapted to get
around anti-money laundering controls. Reuters has an excellent, must-read report
on North Korea’s use of bulk cash transactions to avoid the scrutiny of
banks and law enforcement. The report features an interview with Kim
Kwang Jin, who defected and revealed his role in an international
re-insurance scam.

North Korea has also responded by splitting its income streams via
more banks. South Korea claims that it’s difficult to associate
specific accounts with illicit activity, which is always the case with
money laundering. That’s the whole idea of such classic money
laundering methods as “structuring” — dividing large payments into
smaller ones to evade reporting requirements — and “co-mingling” —
mixing illicit funds with the proceeds of “legitimate” activity. The
usual law enforcement approach to such tactics is to impose special
measures on all of the suspected launderer’s income and assets. That
approach shifts the burden to those handling the suspect’s transactions
to establish the legitimacy of the origin and use of the funds. It was
also the clear intent of Paragraph 8(d) of UNSCR 1718.

All of which suggests that an appropriate U.N. sanction would be to
ban bulk cash transactions with North Korea, its nationals, and its
agencies.

Baldwin had first been
approached by a Post reporter while walking his dogs outside his East 10th
Street pad at around 10:50 a.m. He was asked for comment on a lawsuit against
his wife, Hilaria, involving her work as a yoga instructor.

The “30 Rock’’ star grabbed the reporter, Tara Palmeri, by her arm and told
her, “I want you to choke to death,” Palmeri told police, for whom she played
an audiotape of the conversation.

He then called G.N.
Miller — a decorated retired detective with the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control
Bureau and a staff photographer for The Post — a “coon, a drug dealer,’’
Miller’s police statement said.

"This pipeline is
so that we can start selling to China and other places. Which they would say
was about creating some jobs and it’s about bringing in money, but most of that
money isn’t trickling down to anybody....

"What is
trickling down to us is leakages, spills, bad health, um, contaminated water,
contaminated air, radioactive materials, property values dropping, our health.
That’s what’s being trickled down to us, and we have to say no to that."

Earlier this month,
the Facebook Inc. released its first “10-K” annual financial report since going
public last year. Hidden in the report’s footnotes is an amazing admission:
despite $1.1 billion in U.S. profits in 2012, Facebook did not pay even a dime
in federal and state income taxes.